Divergent

Divergents is the common term to refer to Sweetles and Grubgrub Family of Critters. While visually very different, one can lay the egg of the other and both tend to Plants giving them either the Sweetle tended (a 5% growth boost) or Grubgrub Rub (a 50% growth boost) effect. Sweetles can be found in the Wasteland Biome, along with Spindly Grubfruit Plants.

Sweetles and Grubgrubs will have an increased chance to lay Grubgrub eggs if allowed to tend Grubfruit Plants. Grubgrubs with access to grubfruit plants will increase their chance of laying a grubgrub egg to over 99%. Grubgrubs without grubfruit plants will increase their chance of laying a sweetle egg up to 33%

Neither critter will retaliate if attacked.

Sweetle
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Grubgrub
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Tips

 * Sweetles enable sustainable creation of Sucrose. They are best kept in their own ranch without plants to tend, as otherwise they'll lay almost no Sweetle eggs, depriving the colony of its Sucrose production.
 * Grubgrubs are best paired with Grubfruit Plants to rub them for faster growth. This can be done without feeding them. If they are fed, however, it's best to feed them Sulfur directly, as it's 50kg instead of 60kg through a Sweetle, and you get more Mud output.
 * All together, this will allow production of Grubfruit Peserve, a long-lasting food source similar to Pickled Meal.
 * To feed the Sweetles, Grubgrubs, and Grubfruit Plants long-term requires a source of Sulfur, and so a Sulfur Geyser tamer is recommended. The high temperature of the Sulfur is a problem, and Sulfur has very low thermal conductivity that will make cooling once it's solid quite a hassle. However, since a geyser will only output less than 3kg/s of liquid Sulfur, the output can be pumped and then split into three pipes for cooling without condensing in the pipes before being output.

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